‘China Has Created an Industrial Model for Birthright Citizenship’: Peter Schweizer [WATCH]

Author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer is warning that China has developed what he described as an organized, government-backed strategy to exploit birthright citizenship in the United States, creating what he argues is a serious and largely unaddressed national security vulnerability.

Schweizer made the remarks while discussing how foreign nationals, particularly from China, are able to secure U.S. citizenship for their children under current American law, despite the lack of reliable data tracking the nationality of parents.

“Here’s what I think a lot of people don’t appreciate and understand,” Schweizer said.

“China, for example, has created an industrial model for birthright citizenship.”

According to Schweizer, this is not a fringe or underground practice but one openly discussed by Chinese authorities.

“This is organized. The Chinese government talks about it in government newspapers,” he said.

“You have a right to have this.”

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Schweizer contrasted China’s organized approach with what he described as a lack of oversight in the United States.

He said American authorities do not track how many foreign nationals obtain U.S. citizenship through childbirth because the government does not collect information on the nationality of parents at the time of birth.

“In the United States, they allow companies to create these services,” Schweizer said.

“We have no idea how many foreign nationals are engaging in birthright citizenship in the United States, because we don’t collect information on the nationality of the parents. We just say the child is born. Here’s a birth certificate.”

Schweizer said estimates from the Chinese government itself suggest the scale of the practice is far larger than many Americans realize. “China has looked at this, and the Chinese estimates are stunning,” he said.

He cited figures he attributed to Chinese government sources.

“Mark, the Chinese government believes that over the last 13 years, each year, 100,000 Chinese nationals have been born in the United States,” Schweizer said.

Based on those numbers, Schweizer argued that the cumulative impact is significant.

“What that means, mark is, there are more than a million US citizens,” he said, adding, “I’ll put that in air quotes that were born here.”

Schweizer said many of those children are born to wealthy or politically connected families and are raised outside the United States.

“But they’re children of the Chinese elite that are growing up in China,” he said.

He warned that those individuals would later gain full access to American civic and government institutions.

“And when they turn 18, they’re going to be able to vote, they’re going to be able to get government jobs,” Schweizer said.

Schweizer framed the issue as a direct national security concern, particularly in light of close U.S. elections.

“And let’s remember the 2016 election where Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton,” he said.

“That race was settled by 80,000 votes.”

He argued that the scale of birthright citizenship exploitation could have meaningful political consequences.

“So this is a huge national security threat and burst right? Citizenship,” Schweizer said.

Schweizer rejected the idea that the trend is accidental or incidental.

“It’s not random, it’s organized,” he said.

“And the Chinese have an industrial model for carrying it out.”

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